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Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx +6 more
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Arctic Bay, Nunavut -- photograph
The settlement of Arctic Bay, on the Borden Peninsula, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut. The sign on the hillside in syllabics is 'Ikpiarjuk, Nunavut' -- 'the pocket' (i.e. surrounded by hills).
Seale, Linda N.
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Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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Nunavut Small Craft Harbours Report [PDF]
This report was jointly developed in 2004 by an intergovernmental committee established by the Deputy Minister of Nunavut’s Department of Community Development and Transportation, and the Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).
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Every autumn on the south coast of Victoria Island (Nunavut, Canada), endangered Dolphin and Union (DU) caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus x pearyi) wait for sea ice to form before continuing their southwards migration to the mainland.
Ellen Bowler +13 more
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Abstract Near‐surface permafrost degradation has the potential to damage infrastructure needed to sustain Arctic communities, but risk assessments remain highly uncertain due to a limited representation of the Arctic circumpolar building stock. With deep learning building footprint detection and building occupancy classification models, we expand the ...
E. Manos +4 more
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From Nunavut to Swaziland : the Nunavut Youth Abroad Program [PDF]
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Du Nunavut au Swaziland : le Nunavut Youth Abroad ...
Shore, K.
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The Impact of Canada's Working Income Tax Benefit on the Labor Supply of Low‐Income Workers
ABSTRACT We use administrative tax data to estimate the effect of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) on the labor supply of single, low‐income workers in Canada. Our analytical approach exploits low knowledge of the program, which generates variation in the benefit receipt both between and within eligible tax filers over time.
Kourtney Koebel, Dionne Pohler
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Relief shown by shading.; Title, text, and some place names in English, French, and Inuktitut (in Inuktitut syllabics and Inuinnaqtun Roman orthography).; "Produced from digital data.
Nunavut. Department of Education;
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“We call it soul food”: Inuit women and the role of country food in health and well-being in Nunavut
Indigenous knowledge is central to understanding environment and health sciences in the Arctic, yet limited research in these fields has explored the human–animal–environment interface from the unique perspectives of Inuit women.
Amy Caughey +9 more
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